Case Studies

Transportation recently surpassed electricity production as the largest carbon dioxide emitter. Trees can reduce environmental impact while calming traffic, encouraging walking, decreasing aggressive driving and extending the life of pavement.

Case Studies

“Planners who succeed tend to be opportunistic... It is, in a way, a creative awareness of the many linkages that exist among the variety of social, political, environmental, and economic issues that confront planners in their everyday work.”
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This CWP manual provides guidance on urban tree planting at the development site and watershed scale. The manual discusses species selection, site preparation, tree planting and maintenance techniques, and special considerations for urban tree planting.

This Urban Watershed Forestry Manual is a comprehensive guide for community planners and local governments on planting trees to improve water quality within a watershed. Information contained within this guide includes methods for increasing forest cover on public lands and rights-of-way, conserving and planting trees at development sites. Also includes an urban tree planting guide for work crews and volunteers.